5 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 29

Somebody's Best Book Yet

Laurence Lerner MENSONGE by Malcolm Bradbury Deutsch, £5.95 T he death of the author poses a tricky problem for those authors who are still alive. If it is language that speaks......

Books

Very few revs per century Colin Welch THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM by Alan Macfarlane Basil Blackwell, £19.50 F avourable noises about Dr Macfar- lane's book have emerged from that......